Hello, Susan from Minnesota

Some time ago, I wrote some Bible Studies on Mark 11-16 and Deuteronomy 5-8. I posted them on this Blog. A person I don't know called 'Susan from Minnesota' contacted me recently via the Blog and said this:

Hi Justin,

I found your Mark study back in February when I did a web search for lent bible studies and your blog was one of the ones that came up. Your's was the only one that interested me so I took it to my bible study group unsure if they would like it our not as we had never done any study this in depth before. I can truly say that God 100% guided me to this study, and praises to Him as our group thoroughly enjoyed it and does not want to go back to the touching the surface type of a study any more.

Glad to hear it!

Here are PDF copies of the two studies:

• Marks Gospel - Lent Bible Studies
• Deuteronomy 5-9 - Quench Your Thirst in a Desert Land

They are not really edited or proof read. So they are not professional etc. But that's what you get online -- any old junk!

I also have some preliminary stuff on Revelation that I might try to get online.

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Bible Study Help: 1 Timothy

One of our Bible Study Home Fellowship Groups is studying 1 Timothy 2 this Friday. It has some very controversial words in it, particularly the ones in Verses 8-15 about:

• The limits of women teaching and exercising authority (and the link with Eve.)
  
• That difficult verse about women being saved though child-bearing.

Can any of you offer my friend Nathan (who is leading) some insights into these verses?

Anything may be of help. Or even if you could point Nathan to the best resources on those texts.

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You won't experience Easter this early until 2160...

Feel like Christmas has just finished? That's because it did just finish.

But Easter falls earlier than normal this year: Easter Sunday is March 23. That means that Ash Wednesday begins the Season of Lent in a mere three weeks: February 6.

I'm told by WIKI that the earliest date that Easter can fall on is March 22nd (March 22 was last Easter Day in 1818, and it will next fall on that day again 2285.) March 23 will be the earliest you will ever experience Easter. Actually, it will be the earliest for you, and your children, and your grandchildren, and your great-grandkids and your great-great-great-grandkids. It will not be Easter Sunday this early until 2160.

Wiki says that "the cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a mean for all dates of 162,857 times, or 2.9%."

Hmmm.

Of course, you could ditch all this, and follow the Apostle's advice to Timothy:

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my Gospel.

Or you can read and study Mark 11-16 for the Season of Lent. That would be worthwhile, right? You could do this as a Bible Study or a Home Group. I wrote these Bible Studies 2 years ago, but have updated the dates for the daily readings through Lent leading up to Easter.

• Marks Gospel - Lent Bible Studies
• Mark 11-16 - Daily Lent Readings
  
• Mark 11-16 - Daily Lent Readings_A4

CLICK above and Download them at your leisure.

The only cost to you is that you simply let me know that you have downloaded them (so I can keep a track of who is using it.) Either post a comment, or send me an email (on my Profile page)

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Four Studies on Deuteronomy 5-8

I'm still taking a break, but I can upload, right?

Would you like a set of Bible Studies for your Home Group? Four Studies on Deuteronomy 5-8? They are not the 'ask 10 questions' kind of Bible Studies. And some of it may need explaining. So feel free to contact me if you have any questions...

Deuteronomy5-8_Studies.pdf
(Let me know if it doesn't open, I can email it to you.)

There is one sermon that goes with it on Deuteronomy 6 that you can download HERE.

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